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Well that makes two of us. Although I was in chorus for a few years and tried the flute for two as well. Never have I ever been to Disneyland in California

Wish granted @drpaladin, except the guy is female weight lifter and she finds you attractive. I wish I could go to Disney World.

Did you want to pose, like Rose from Titanic?

Cast Away

I have. My mother bought me the full set, leather bound. I got a book a month starting when I was 25. They are beautiful and I've read them all multiple times. Never have I ever been scuba diving.

Where nor what. Lol

Granted, you have the cat food, but your cats have brought home dogs and will cry until you feed the dogs too. Wish the storm would stop.

Never been hang gliding. I can see well enough and that scares me. Never have I been to a concert.

Are we traveling to Sesame Street?

Granted, but now you work making all the new sandwiches. I wish I could go on vacation.

I love using a picture to create a story. We used a few for prompts, but decided it was in not in the best interest of the site to keep using them. However, I've never been to pinterest mainly because everyone I know who uses it seems to lose hours on it. I have enough distractions without deliberately looking for more.

I haven't had a character die in my stories. Not that I'm opposed, it just hasn't made sense in my stories. However, death can be powerful and create massive change. Harry Potter is filled with death and characters dying and being murdered. Most I read and their deaths meant little to me. When Dobby died, I cried, set the book down, and needed time to grieve his passing. I'm talking about a character in a book, who I had become invested in, and I needed time to grieve. In comics, Batman becomes who he is because he witnesses the murder of his parents. Superman lives a dual life, one knowing he is among a few survivors of the planet Krypton, and the child of the Kents who raise him. Wonder Woman is shaped by living in a world of immortal women, where death is rare and all life is special. Death can shape the character, and alter how a reader sees the story. I'm not a great fan of death, but it is a part of life, and it can be used powerfully in a story.

Fantasy, sci-fi, romance are all fine for me. However, give me a period piece, Western, or God forbid, a war story and I'm out of my element. As an English major, I've read many period pieces. The research doesn't bother me, but setting the tone and getting the details right would drive me to distraction. Westerns, again, due to a lack experience. You can create a flying dragon and explain how it feels, yet no one can clock you as having the details wrong. Write about riding a horse, the tack, and how it feels after a day in the saddle, and people everywhere will tell if you get a detail wrong because they live it. Finally, war stories make me uncomfortable. I have difficulty seeing, add in a weapon that must be aimed and I'm doomed. Now add moving targets and bullets aimed at me, well, to be honest, I'm completely lost. I haven't been a soldier, and it feels wrong to ask one what it is like to kill, barely survive, and live with the aftermath to get it right for a story. Almost anything else I can research and create, but those, well I just can't seem to strike the right tone when attempting to write them, so, I stay away from them.

Granted- a new desk was delivered, but it has no screws or nails, and the directions are in Latin. I wish I had a puppy.

Anyway, you never forget your first, which was Baker for me. (God, I'm old and I still want his scarf!) Of the reboot I love Tennant and Smith for different reasons. They both brought such a richness to the Doctor. As for the original companion - Sarah Jane. Modern Companion - Amy/ Rory because they gave the audience the incredible River Song. I also love the impossible girl Clara Osborn. I really hated Rose, but Donna I mostly felt sorry for. As for Captain Jack, I see him as more of a guest star, since he starred in torchwood. (In Love with Jack) I'm probably going to catch hell here, but I like Capaldi. I feel he was just hitting his stride when his turn ended. Unlike some I can't wait for the new series and the 13th Doctor.

How can you not like Amy? She gave us River!

I've used real settings in my stories. Stories that include real places, are places I've lived, worked at, or visited. At the time of I am writing those places can easily be found. Naturally a few years later half of them might be gone.

I've never had an issue with a woman writer. Hell, I have had beta and editors that were female, and trust me, they have no problem calling out an issue with a character in my stories - regardless if the character is straight, gay, bi, alien, or whatever. When I do have an issue is when a story just doesn't make sense. That has nothing to do with the writer's gender and everything to do with their ability to tell a story. Hell, we have some very talented authors here. If people start saying women can't, or men can't, or transgendered people can't then we eliminate so many stories, views, and new understandings. When people use blanket comments or broad strokes they do away with the fine details that make up so much of the world.

In that case, where are they?

Such an interesting read. Glad to have found it.

Well that went better than I thought it would.

So Aarons has given all the nicknames except Ben's. Not sure how this will go over.